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Download PDF: Crane, Arboreal Wisdom Editor’s note: This piece was first presented at a conference on religion and ecology at Emory University titled “The Sacred Mundane” on September 10 and 11, 2015. Practical Matters is pleased to feature some of the reflections from

Download PDF: RV Hoelle, Hanukkah in America By Dianne Ashton New York: New York University Press, 2013. 343 pages. $29.95. Hanukkah is one of the least important festivals in the Jewish religious calendar, yet it is one of the two holidays celebrated

Download PDF: Fischer, Orthodox Judaism Experience of the Divine * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Robert Orsi, in his opening essay, writes, “Jesus and the Blessed Mother, the angels and the saints

Download PDF: Exploring Conflict and Peacebuilding Exploring World Religions through the Lens of Sacred Space “Sacred Space in World Religions” is a course taught at Candler School of Theology as a summer intensive. In it, we take advantage of the

Download PDF: RV Holt, When Religion Becomes Lethal By Charles Kimball San Francisco: Wiley, Jossey-Bass, 2011. 272 pages. $27.95. As the title of the book When Religion Becomes Lethal implies, author Charles Kimball aims to educate the reader about the sensitive relationship between the great monotheistic

There are few places in the world so closely identified with religion and violence as Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Yet just as elements of each of the world’s three monotheistic religions have historically committed great episodes of violence in

About the Film This twelve-minute documentary examines how the practice of the visual arts can involve the religious identities of young people. In this film, created for Practical Matters by independent documentary filmmaker Sonia Narang, an Indian Jewish visual artist works